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Which Stars Pretended They Had No Idea the Golden Globes Were Announced Today?
4:45AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s a time-honoured Hollywood tradition: when reached for comment on award nominations, pretend you had no idea they were announced today (despite your relentless awards season flogging)! Let’s rate today’s feigned Golden Globe ignorance: More »
Golden Globes Jilt ‘Milk,’ ‘Dark Knight’; ‘In Treatment’ Leads TV Noms
12:00AM STV | No looming strike will slow down this year’s Golden Globe Awards, nominations for which were announced this morning with a few mildly head-cramping surprises. The good news: Slumptastic Revolutionary Road finally got some awards season recognition! The bad news: It came at Milk’s expense. And in the TV categories, In Treatment’s five nods surpassed Mad Men, 30 Rock and Entourage, each with three nominations. A full list of nominees follows the jump. We’ll have a closer read through the nominees later this morning after we properly suit up for another journey into Awards Hell, but for now we ask: James Franco as Best Actor for Pineapple Express? And: Between the four nominations apiece for Vicky Cristina Barcelona and The Reader, how about those Weinsteins? More »
Hard Times Force Golden Globe Parties to Go On With Recycled Diamonds
8:41AM STV | The collective shrug over a possible SAG strike gathered a few more shoulders today, with representatives for Hollywood’s influential Party Planning Mafia acknowledging that no labour impasse (or recession, for that matter) will prevent it from restoring the Golden Globes afterparties to their long-dormant luster. To wit: Press conferences are out, and “plasma screen-outfitted water walls” are in! And that’s just for starters. More »
Jeff Zucker Rumored To Be Seeking Damages From WGA For Pooping On His Golden Globes Parade: UPDATE
4:02AM Seth | With the joyous news that the writers strike has unequivocally ended, an historic accord marked by Nick Counter and Patric Verrone appearing together on the balcony of the Warner Bros. water tower on Valentine’s Day eve, as thousands below chant, “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!” until the reluctant peacemakers finally acquiesce to a deafening roar of approval, it would seem everything is right again in the magical realm of Hollywoodland. Which makes this rumor all the more disconcerting: Could the NBC Universal ruler, whose upward-failing rise to power was prophesied in lesser-known New Testament appendix The Book of Jeff, really be mulling a lawsuit with the HFPA against the WGA for robbing them of a Golden Globes ceremony? Deadline Hollywood Daily says it could be so: More »
Nikki Blonsky Flips Out, Quite Literally
8:28AM Defamer Hollywood | During an evening lacking any sort of true (or even manufactured) sense of excitement, we found ourselves giddily mesmerized by the grainy home video that Nikki Blonsky shot of her family’s reaction to the news that she had been nominated for a Globe for her work in Hairspray. After all, it’s one thing to trash a hotel room, but it’s another thing entirely to trash your parents’ living room. In a viral video era where capturing a “real” reaction becomes harder and harder, it’s impossible to argue that Nikki’s spontaneous flip of the Blonsky family coffee table was anything other than a pure moment born from a rush of adrenaline and emotion. More simply put, we just paid witness to one of the most ecstatic moments of this young woman’s life to date. We love everything about it, unironically and unapologetically. Now if only John Travolta were able to show this kind of range… WATCH VIDEO More »
Robbed Of Their Moment, This Year’s Golden Globe Victors Agree That It’s Just An Honor To Win
7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | After a disorienting Golden Access Globes Press Hollywood Conference Awards that left nominees and audiences alike utterly befuddled (we understand Sally Field was fished out of The Grove’s dancing waters fountain at 3 a.m. delivering an impassioned speech about bringing the troops home to two security guards on a golf cart), our traditional Globes parties post-mortem promised to be a similar mess. Still, if there were awards, and there were winners, by God there’s going to be a reactions round-up, even if it comes off sounding a lot like the ones you read after the nominations are announced: The Atonement crew toasted their win at a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont, where the ghost of O.D.’d John Belushi smiled over their WWII romance’s win. [Variety] Marion Cotillard enjoyed her win for La Vie en Rose from the Four Seasons. “I’m enjoying so much what’s going on here, I can’t be disappointed in any way,” she said, convincingly masking her extreme disappointment. [Variety] Julian Schnabel learned of his Best Director win at New York City airport baggage carousel, upon turning his cellphone on: “It was very glamorous. It was one of those existential moments. I was extremely happy.” [USA Today] Like Ernest Borgnine’s bash, Sweeney Todd producer Richard Zanuck made it a family affair, taking in the press conference from his son’s home in Beverly Hills–which is nice, but not, like, seated next to Johnny Depp with lots of water glasses and fancy silverware nice: “I must say, it’s a wonderful thing to be seated at a table and all the suspense of that. All that was nonexistent (tonight), but it doesn’t take away from the honor.” [Variety] “Glenn Close, best TV actress/drama for FX’s Damages, was in a bar in New York’s meatpacking district with the show’s cast and crew. ‘It’s a wonderful way to watch — we were rooting for our team.’” She then mounted the counter at the Brass Monkey for a celebratory striptease patrons won’t soon forget. [ABC News] Best Actor in TV Series, Musical or Comedy winner David Duchovny went to see a movie while the winners were announced: “I kinda didn’t want to watch, it would just make me tense or nervous, so I went out to see a movie at four (o’clock) and I knew I wouldn’t be home until it was announced. I knew if my phone was ringing when I walked into my hotel room that I would have won. And it was. Nobody calls a loser.” And with that, this year’s ceremony wiped the snot from its nose as it checked its phone in vain for any congratulatory messages. [AP] More »
America Not Particularly Interested In Billy Bush’s Announcement Of Golden Globes Winners On NBC
6:09AM Defamer Hollywood | · NBC’s Billy Bush-enhanced Reading of the Golden Globes Winners telecast draws just 5.8 million viewers, lower Nielsen numbers than even last week’s public-access-quality People’s Choice Awards delivered to CBS. Meanwhile, the premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was huge for Fox. [THR] Shaking off the disappointment of its Globes debacle, NBC orders another season of Proven Ratings Winner American Gladiators (surely, two episodes is all the evidence one needs to make such a commitment!), though the network is being coy about how many episodes it’s ordered or when they might air. [Variety] Having quietly completed two days of negotiations over the weekend, everyone in Hollywood will be watching the DGA and AMPTP for signs that they’re about to announce a deal. (Especially members of the WGA, who are praying the directors don’t reach an unfavorable agreement that makes their own contract-talk suffering any worse.) [THR] The Producers Guild nominates The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, and There Will Be Blood for its feature film award, jilting both of last night’s Globes winners, Atonement and Sweeney Todd.[Variety] More »
Ain’t No Party Like An Ernest Borgnine Golden Globes Party
5:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Though the cancellation of Golden Globes ceremony forced the Hallmark Channel to grudgingly call off its annual after-party, considered by many to be the most debauched in all of Hollywood (2006’s orgy honoring Meet the Santas is still spoken of in hushed tones for the five overdosing Saint Nicks who had to be removed from a single bathroom stall at the Riot Hyatt), Globes nominee and A Grandpa for Christmas star Ernest Borgnine decided he would still try and salvage what fun he could from the wreckage of the evening, hosting an intimate gathering at his home. And Access Hollywood was there! The ever-smiling Hollywood veteran said he was happy to be home instead of wrapped up in the “hullabaloo” of the ceremony, “because if I want a beer or I want a sandwich or whatever, I’m able to get up and go. These people have to sit there and wait until somebody tells them to go pee.” Tension grew as each category was announced. “This is like going into labor, for God sake,” Tova said of the long wait. Finally, the actor’s category came up. Jim Broadbent was announced as the winner. Tova and Nancy Borgnine booed, but Borgnine clapped. “Hey, I already got one,” he said. “I was nominated and I think that’s wonderful. You don’t have to win them all.” A win would have been good for the Hallmark Channel, he said, “but for me, I’ve got one. And I’ve got the big guy, too.” Borgnine’s admirable magnanimity in the face of defeat would soon fade, however, as he further contemplated the indignity the HFPA visited upon him in delivering the upset win to Broadbent. Local news crews hoping to get some feel-good footage for their post-awards-show segments soon found themselves documenting an expletive-filled tirade in which the agitated nonagenarian, menacingly swinging around his previously won Oscar and Globe, invited “that Limey dandy” over to his house “settle this like men,” pledging that the winner of a best-of-three-falls Indian-leg-wrestling would get to “keep all the goddamn trophies.” [Photo: AP] Strike Can’t Stop Ernest Borgnine From Partying On Globes Night [Access Hollywood] More »
Globes Winner Jeremy Piven Wants You To Know He Came Up With The Bitch-Hugging Thing All By Himself
3:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Once of the great tragedies of last night’s decimated Golden Globes was being deprived of the opportunity to watch Entourage’s Jeremy Piven, one of Hollywood’s most enthusiastic awards recipients, take the stage and toe the always-difficult line between obligatory humility and “I so deserved this! This fucking show is nothing but four stoned jackasses high-fiving in a booth at Les Deux without Ari Gold!” self-aggrandizement Instead, we had to settle for Dateline’s pre-announcement-show interview with the eventual Best Supporting TV actor winner, during which Piven, answering a question about the ostensible burden of going through life having to hug out every bitch who wants a taste of Gold’s iconic agent-embrace, reminds America that he was “lucky enough” to be the creator of the catchphrase; accordingly, he doesn’t mind accepting the back-slapping love of his adoring public, although it does make him slightly uncomfortable when the celebration of his genius creeps into his house of worship. Dateline NBC [Msnbc.com] More »
